Archive for Analysis

The approach offers a new method of calling the strike zone.

Batted-Ball Run Value offers a new (and improved) way to measure batters’ value.

Which team would win a championship based on nicknames brought to life?

The breakout star from Ben Reiter’s upcoming Astros book might just be the nine-time All-Star. As a managerial candidate.

Are there many full time platoons these days?

Things look good for the Mariners and bad for the Nationals, but as the 1988 Yankees show, we don’t know until we know.

Even sports that seem as different as UFC and baseball have players who are eerily similar.

Let’s take stock of everything that isn’t winning.

The postseason is thrilling, but it could be improved, and that might just make baseball better in the process.

The effort to hire more women in STEM fields offers a parallel to baseball’s efforts to diversify the front office.